Tough Girl Podcast

Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent is a travel writer, TV producer and director of Edge Expeditions. She’s written three books, penned numerous articles for magazines, set an unlikely Guinness World Record for driving a tuk tuk 12,500 miles from Bangkok to Brighton and filmed in remote locations from Bolivia to Borneo and beyond.  Her latest book, Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains: A Journey Across Arunachal Pradesh – India’s Forgotten Frontier. Show notes Living in Bristol and growing up in Norfolk Being inspired by her parents and her grandmother Family holiday Going straight to University and using her holidays to travel Deciding to drive a tuk tuk from Bangkok to London in 2006 “Ting Tong" the bright pink tuk tuk and raising £50K for the charity MIND Quitting her job, planning the trip, and raising the funds! Getting ill in Bangkok Taking a month to cross China How the trip changed her perceptions of herself Adjusting back to real life after the trip The Ho Chi Minh Trail adventure and how it evolved Loving the histo